2011/08/11

Black & White - Mirrors

Man is a mirror for man.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty


Brassaï, Juan-les-Pins, aux Folies-Bergères, 1932



Paul Nougé, Les oiseaux vous poursuivent, 1929-1930


Brassaï,  Chez Suzy  Rue Grégoire-de-Tours, Paris 6e, circa 1931-1932


Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Bibi a l’hotel des Alpes, 1930


Herbert List, Spirit of Lycabettus I, Athens, 1937


Wright Morris, Reflection in Oval Mirror, Home Place, 1947


Wright Morris, Barbershop, Weeping Water, Nebraska, 1947


Robert Doisneau, Les Quatre Sergents de la Rochelle, Paris 1950


Alfred Eisenstaedt


Alfred Eisenstaedt, A model pauses to regard herself in the grand
mirror of the Molyneux atelier, Paris, 1934

André Kertész, Peggy Guggenheim, New York, 1945


Walker Evans, Bedroom Interior with Dresser and Mirror


Elliott Erwitt, California Kiss, 1955


René Groebli, The Eye of Love, 1955

René Maltête, échecs (Chess)

Clarence John Laughlin, Doorway to lost world, 1955



Clarence John Laughlin, The Mirror of Nothingness, 1957


Josef Sudek, from the Labyrinths cycle, 1948-1973


Imogen Cunningham, Phoenix in the Mirror, c. 1968


Keith Arnatt, Self Burial with Mirror, 1969


Maurits Cornelis Escher, Self-portrait with a convex mirror, 1970


Joseph Jachna, Door County, Wisconsin, 1970


Vivian Maier, Self-Portrait


Vivian Maier


Vivian Maier, Untitled, Self Portrait (in Round Mirrors)


Francesca Woodman, Self Deceit #7, Rom Italy 1978


Alix Cleo Roubaud


Nina Mushinsky, Vanity, 1996


Duane Michals, Dr. Heisenberg’s Magic Mirror of Uncertainty, 1998


Robb Johnson, Within The Mirror, 2006


5 comments:

  1. Love that title : "Dr. Heisenberg’s Magic Mirror of Uncertainty"

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  2. what a post...

    and,

    amazing how Vivian Maier already is amongst the best :)

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  3. These are glorious! What a magical post.

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  4. Thank you, Filipe! Vivian Maier, her sovereignty is indeed remarkable.

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  5. Such a superb collection. I'm a huge tumblr user to find inspiration, but this is one of 2 blogs which I follow separately. Thank you for your good work.

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